The Brit List: August 2024

Introduction

I started compiling these lists in December 2020 to continue something Hive account@pennsif used to do as I think it helps bring the community together. Since then I have found lots more people to include. @HiveSQL has been really useful for this. I was using beem to generate this post, but that is not in active development and I found HiveSQL could do it much quicker. I use Python for most things. Some of the post is manual as I like to include some commentary and I will keep tweaking it. I am open to suggestions for improvements. I aim to do a fresh list on the first Saturday of each month.

Logo by @barge

I also rely on the community to let me know of more people to include who may not have obvious account metadata. You can find me in the Hive account@teamuksupport Discord to discuss it or drop me a comment.

The #teamuk tag has been used to show you are in the UK and was earning extra votes from a bot, but that has not been active lately. Using the tag may still help me to find you, but please contact me if you think you should be on the list.

The list will include anyone living in the UK as well as Brits who have moved abroad. Inclusion on this list does not mean I recommend people, but I will remove accounts if they are known to be abusing Hive or are falsely reporting their location. I can also remove anyone who asks me to. If you have lost control of your account through phishing or other means then let me know so that I can update your entry. There is the option to be counted without being tagged on these posts if you want that.

The code to produce this post is on Github. People are welcome to use it for their own regional version. I can help you with that if necessary.

Previous editions

What it means

The numbers above are for those who had posted or commented in the previous month. In the lists below I break each region into three lists:

Active as above.
Just voting. I will guess that a lot of these use automatic votes, e.g. HiveVote. Previously there were some that appear to have been compromised as they vote for known abusers. Those are now excluded until I hear that they have recovered control.
Inactive in the last month, but most have done something since Hive started. We can hope to bring them back.

I want to count people rather than accounts as some have several. I can include those in brackets if you want. Let me know if you want me to update your listing. You can be as specific as you like about your location. Otherwise I will use what is on your profile or what I am told or can deduce from your posts.

Other Countries

I have produced similar lists for the following countries. Active numbers are from the last time I ran them. These have used simpler queries than what I use for the UK, so they are likely to miss people. What it needs is for local communities to take up this work. The data and scripts are all on my Github for anyone to make use of. I can do other lists on demand.

Australia. 66 active.
Ghana. 28 active.
Germany. 103 active.
Indonesia. 154 active.
Ireland. 23 active (2022).
Italy, 45 active. Hive account@bencwarmer has done a more comprehensive list.
Netherlands by Hive account@michelmake. 44 active.
Nigeria. 507 active.
Portugal. 25 active.
Romania. 10 active.
Scandinavia. 31 active.
South Africa. 31 active.
Spain. 52 active.
Turkey. 12 active.
Ukraine (2022).

Commentary

The numbers went up a bit this month thanks to finding a few more people. People are joining Hive all the time and I run queries to find them. We do need many more though. The $HIVE price is still struggling. You can buy some, if you can afford it, via the links in the peakd wallet. Even if the price is stagnant you can increase your curation earnings by powering up.

The corporate social platforms can be frustrating with all their ads and intrusive use of data. Getting seen may depend on paying them, but on Hive everyone can earn. We need more people to know that. No platform is perfect, but Hive offers opportunities and more people make it more interesting.

If you know people who are listed as inactive then you could encourage them to return.

I may well do more lists for other countries as I get a good response. They have inspired at least one meetup and someone else has taken on the task of building their own list. That is what I wanted to see. If you work with your local community you can build great things.